A gameplay video is really, really, REALLY important for any guide to be completed. I’d appreciate if you can post a gameplay in the future.
Thanks for the guide.
this is actually my first build guide ever and i made it mid stream its far from complete ill work on it while i eat super.
Hi!
Thanks in advance for a great guide.
I have a question though. How Come you specialise into ice thorns?
Would really add to the quality of the guide if you write explanations below each skill to give us an idea of how you think.
And maybe a short section on how to play the build and what the cons and pros of it are.
Thanks!
yes sorry honestly the only reason i made this guide is because of the number of people asking, I will put more effort into this and other guides in the future. Ice thorns cast itself when you are hit and increase your armour and ice resists. It isn’t much of a boost but you can’t cast other skills while in bear form so it’s more of a “better than nothing” situation.
PS welcome to the community. Feel free to check out my mini guide to the whole game in the general discussions section of the forums 
A lot of people ask about how to Werebear? That’s nice because I think the class is underappreciated but it’s pretty easy and straight forward so i would love to know the questions people have outside of “How many points of attunment should I have at least?”.
There is no word about entaglning roots in your build. You can procc them with your bear skills and get the funny bonuses from it like 100% more dmg for example. When I look at my resis with only meh gear I think Ice thorns are a biiiiig waste of a skill just for that little more protections. Did you look at your stats how much changes after it procced? For myself it’s a pretty big joke but it may be different when your resis are lower.
Do you play your bear with only 3 buttons as well? Bearswipe, charge and roar? The other ability is totaly lackluster in my Eyes or did I miss something?
Nice to see a guide after all.
oh i didn’t realize you could proc roots. Honesty this wasnt a flushed out build. I wasnt even trying to go far in arena just level to 100. I wouldn’t have made this guide if i wasn’t asked. Ravage is way better than roar tbh, hold alt when reading it “increases damage taken by 10%” thats HUGE for elites. Also the ice thorns are simply bc there is nothing better for that slot ^^
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In Swipe skill tree image there is Avatar of the Wild selected (swipe deals 4% increased damage for each point of attunement)
With ~50 attunement it didn’t seem to make any difference with Werebear Swipe (however in human form Swipe dps difference was huge)
Werebear Swipe already gets 4% increased damage per point of attunement, so I suspect Avatar of the Wild doesn’t stack with it.
So those two points (Avatar of the Wild & Claws of Stone) might be better used elsewhere.
bear doesnt get 4% dmg from attunement press ALT and youll see its only mana eff
also the totems are great decoys in the arena distracting 1 spawn point until you finish another one
Werebear Swipe (also Ravage & Charge) does get 4% dmg from attunement, at least my ALT says so.
oic i never bothered checking the individual skills! i will do testing and update the guide thank you for bringing this to my attention
EDIT: i removed the point from the swipe tree for attunement and i didnt notice a damage change but i will need to re-level the skill to test further it would be nice if a dev could comment on whether the skill stack attunement or not.
Bear swipe already has a attunment conversion se he don’t get one on top of it. If you play a high uptime bear you can forget to put points there.
What’s the the purpose of Ice thorns if you’re in werebear form most of the time?
You can proc ice throns when you are hit so in werebear its instant/auto cast40% chance (max) when you take a hit. Build the node tree defensively and you get + armor and + elemental for each layer of ice thorns. It definitely helps defensively.
yeah what boardman said but its more of a “better than nothing” type deal.
You can also run maelstrom on hit but it consumes way to much mana.
yeah i tried this was too inefficient i think they are planning on adding mana efficiency nodes in the future. Ill test it if/when they do.
now that the werebear took a hit not sure if id even bother
my stats still look pretty solid. Sure you take more dmg but untill glancing blow is gone everything is fine. The Dmg is still good as well. There are still better builds out there and we slowly come back to the “Play Sentinel or go home!” meta ^^.
Ill try it out soon, the minions need a boost i want a wave 300+ minion build.
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